I dunno, in the original Old English, the saga of Beowulf was pretty bone-chilling stuff. Very, very bloodthirsty of course, but you know those Anglo-Saxons... happiest with a horn of mead in one hand and a bloodied sword in t'other.

Oooh, I got that one too! I haven't read it either. I have a sort of Ernest Hemingway-ish feeling about Conrad - a very portentous author with a rather exaggerated opinion of his own importance - so have never bothered.

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Here is Belladonna, the Lady of the Rocks,The lady of situations.Here is the man with three staves, and here the Wheel,And here is the one-eyed merchant, and this cardWhich is blank, is something that he carries on his back,Which I am forbidden to see. I do not findThe Hanged Man. Fear death by water.I see crowds of people, walking round in a ring.Thank you. If you see dear Mrs. Equitone,Tell her I bring the horoscope myself;